Mid-Michigan woman sent to prison on meth-related child abuse charge

A 23-year-old Vestaburg woman was sentenced to prison Tuesday for allowing her 2 year-old son be present when meth was being made.

Adriana Dennis was sentenced to 14 months to 10 years in prison on a charge of second-degree child abuse after police discovered a meth-making operation in a subsidized St. Louis apartment, said Gratiot County Prosecutor Keith Kushion.

Samples of her son's hair were examined and found to contain high levels of meth. The child was removed from her custody, Kushion said.

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She told the court that she "did not want to be sent to the Department of Corrections as she was trying to reunite with her son," Kushion said. "She asked for county jail time.

"She didn't get it."

Dennis was with James Thomas Proulx, 45, also of Vestaburg, who had been cooking the methamphetamine - with permission of the two brothers who lived there - in a public housing apartment.

Proulx was sentenced in November to four to 30 years in prison.

Dennis was also sentenced to 11 months in prison on a charge of possession of meth, which is to be served concurrently to the sentence on child abuse, Kushion said.